February 12, 2019. The data from the clinical trials for esketamine nasal spray are encouraging, but there are still important questions concerning its safety and efficacy.
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Cancer Prevention and Treatment Funds’ Comments On USPSTF Draft Recommendation Statement for Breast Cancer: Medication Use to Reduce Risk
February 11, 2019. CPTF comments on the USPSTF breast cancer medications such as tamoxifen and raloxifene that are used to reduce risk in patients.
Read More »The USPSTF Draft Recommendations on Medication Use to Prevent Breast Cancer: Comments by Women’s Health Experts
February 11, 2019. NCHR writes on behalf of five nonprofit health organizations that have examined issues pertaining to primary prevention of breast cancer for decades and urge the USPSTF to consider revising their current recommendations on breast cancer risk reducing drugs.
Read More »Testimony at FDA on Sotagliflozin to Help Manage Type 1 Diabetes
January 17, 2019. Just providing new treatment options is not enough. New treatments must provide a real tangible benefit for patients without too much risk.
Read More »NCHR Testimony at the FDA on Optimizer for Heart Failure
December 4, 2018. We all want to help these patients, but new treatments need to provide a real benefit. The questions that we need to answer are does this device help patients and should patients continue to have the option of receiving an experimental treatment as part of a clinical trial, or should they pay for an experimental treatment that has been described as a breakthrough?
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